Is 2.4 million dollars the reason for the anti-ecigarette campaign?

These are details of just one pharmaceutical group. In the past on this blog we have exposed other payments to politicians and anti-ecig groups, and details of how a politician who sought to ban e-cigs was, according to Open Secrets, paid $128,000 by pharmaceutical companies.

Relevance?

Well, big pharm makes billions from the sale of quit smoking aids (some of which are no more effective than quitting cold turkey.)

But with smokers switching to electronic cigarettes instead of using quit smoking aids, big pharma profits are under threat. (As are government tax revenues!)

Junk Science

While smoking is undoubtedly unhealthy, the smoking debate has been characterised by a slew of junk science.

(Almost as if, once tobacco companies had finally admitted smoking was bad, the field was open for the anti-smoking lobby to claim anything they wanted, no matter how little evidence there was for it.)

With the flood of big pharm money now coming into the anti-ecig campaign, perhaps it’s no suprise that this junk science is now being applied to e-cigarettes.

Here’s three to be going on with:

1. Stanton Glatz, anti-smoking anti-nicotine fanatic, has alleged that e-cigs contain dangerous chemicals and should not be allowed indoors:

Main blogger at the Ashtray Blog, co-author of a University of Alberta study of "Electronic cigarettes as potential harm reduction products", co-author of the book: "Electronic Cigarettes: What the Experts Say." Works at ecigarettedirect.co.uk.

2 thoughts on “Is 2.4 million dollars the reason for the anti-ecigarette campaign?”

Between the FDA and pharmacuetical companies, there is a lot of money being passed around the anti-ecigarette campaign. All this energy and money spent on a crusade against something that is helping people stop smoking cigarettes, eliminating second hand smoke and giving individuals (some who might of never quit at all) a better alternative. Thank you Pfizer! (obvious sarcasm)

Most important thing in all this quitting business is that with electronic cigarettes there is no pressure.
You either quit them or not, you either gradually reduce your nicotine intake level or not,
you eventually go to 0 nicotine or not

and whatever you do or not do
with switching to e-cig you have already done a tremendous favour to your health

And that’s exactly what I love most about them
Benefits – great
Pressure – none